After the outbreak of Islamophobia in 2010, CBS news anchor Katie Couric thinks she has a solution: “Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show.”
In a round-table discussion with Politico‘s Jonathan Martin, comedian Mo Rocca and theroot.com‘s Sheryl Huggins-Salomon, Couric said “the bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface this year.”
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Just how qualified was this panel to solve America’s Islamophobia problem? Rocca, for one, displayed his scholarly credentials, saying, “I’m pretty smart, and I cannot tell you five things about Islam.” But they agreed the idea sounded “interesting.”
Couric said she knows the idea “sounds crazy,” but “The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of things they don’t understand.”
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